Ok standard declaimer I don't own labyrinth or gundam wing this is purely for fun and non-profit so enjoy my first chapter let me no what you think it goes a bit fast but then it is only my prologue.

Birth of a Goblin King

By Vera 00

Prologue

They looked around confused each one stuck staring at a garden and a giant wall. Four teen boys that were sure they had just curled up in there sleeping bags, they'd been joking around about a book Trowa a tall, dark green eyed teen with brown hair covering half his face had brought from a local market being a fairy tale, Trowa had to defend it Quatre his best friend was short had aquamarine eyes and bright short blond hair, backed him up but they're two other friends Heero though shorter then Trowa was taller then Quatre ( something they teased the small blond for) had cobalt blue eyes and messy dark brown hair, Wufei around the same height as Heero had raven hair and dark brown eyes that looked black, had stated how illogical a place like that was and how it could only exist in a story. Now it looked as if they were in that story the labyrinth a play Trowa loved old plays, so it made sense he had brought the book, though had no idea how they had ended up in said book.

"Welcome to my labyrinth if you can make it to the centre, I'll let you go" the voice was deep and seemed to vibrate though them.

Heero looked around trying to find the owner "and if we can't make it" he demanded calling out to the voice.

"Then you'll become part of it" the mans voice rocked though them again.

Heero turned and looked at his three friends "well looks like we have no choice we other get though this or we're stuck".

"Yes, but I still don't get it, why us? why are we here? how'd we even get here?" Quatre stated his voice soft with confusion and not a little fear.

Trowa hugged him, his voice comforting "when we get to the centre we can ask, somehow I don't think its something they're going to just tell us".

"Or we're all dreaming, and this is some kind of mass hysteria" Wufei stated angrily.

"Dreaming, mass hysteria, drugs in the fruit loops, I really don't care. I want out of this place so let's find a way in so, we can leave" Heero's voice got them moving and they started looking for a way in.

They never should have opened the book and they never should have entered the labyrinth.

What felt like hours of searching finally gave resalts as Trowa called out he had found a door, the group rushed to him, "looks just like another part of the wall" Trowa told them showing how he found the opening.

"Great. So what the labyrinth is just a bunch of stupid find the hole in the wall camo game or something", Wufei demanded his voice getting ruff with anger.

"Lets just go, faster in faster out of this crazy dream" Quatre said moving though the opening.

Heero shrugged following the blond though, "I think Wufei maybe partly right more walls that just look the same, this is going to take forever", Heero stated.

"That guy didn't give us a time limit so why not try and enjoy it always liked puzzles", Trowa said coming up behind them all.

"You may like them Trowa, but I don't want to live in one, lets go" with that Heero start walking along the wall running a stick he had picked up over it.

This continued for several openings and the boys were getting frustrated it did not feel like there were getting anywhere everything looked the same, at least it did till they fell the ground giving way under them sending all four into a dark tunnel.

Heero was not sure what happened but they were separated now faced with the choice of finding his friends or going right to the centre, he chose to go to the centre sure his friends would head there to just hoping they were ok.

He'd soon find out the labyrinth was fare worse than he thought possible, and it wasn't a dream.

Moving though the labyrinth was hard he had been at it for hours moving from path to path though doorway to doorway and it did change, it changed just enough to be even more confusing even trying to mark where he had been or come from when he'd turn around the marks would be gone only to suddenly be in front of him. Heero was starting to doubt there was a way into the centre or even a way back out.

Heero's first break was a room mirrors and statues gold ornaments it looked like a treasury, and he'd found Quatre, the small blond was sitting on the floor staring at a painting, they wasn't anything remarkable about it just looked like a mix of white and green paint splashed on the canvas but Quatre was staring fixated at it.

"Quat.. hey come on we have to go now we have to find the others and get out of here" Heero spoke softly to his friend not sure what was happening, Quatre didn't respond continuing to stare at the painting.

"Quat please get up ok we have to go" Heero's voice got stronger as he got closer to his friend yet still Quatre did not move, it was not till Heero was right beside the blond that he heard his voice so softly speaking.

"so pretty could never leave such pretty things so very, very pretty" Heero's blood turned cold grabbing Quatre he tried pulling him away only to be pushed away violently and then Quatre was shouting at him "YOU WONT TAKE THEM FROM ME, MINE, THEY'RE MINE" afterwards the blond just sat back down staring again at the painting.

Heero was scared Quatre never yelled like that and his eyes looked vacant like no one was there anymore, Heero backed up away from him "will get you out of here Quatre," with that Heero looked around for a way out of the room the door he'd come in was gone, while searching Heero accidently bumped one of the statues, it fell he tried catching it but he was to late it smashed into the ground. Then the true horror of the labyrinth became all to clear to Heero the man's words "you'll become part of it" rang though his head as he looked at the remains of the statue and saw human bones in the rubble.

Scared and shocked Heero rand back to where he saw Quatre and stared in shock at the blonds feet "oh no no no no Quat we have to get you up ok please we need to get you out of here" Heero tried again and again to get his friend to move with the same results each time he'd be pushed away and yelled at only for Quatre to sit again and stare at the painting. Heero in desperation even tried damaging it getting it off the wall anything to draw the blond from it but was to no avail. Heero watched as one of his close's friends turned to stone.

Now heartbroken at not being able to save Quatre, Heero wondered though the room to find a way out and finally he did right into a garden, it was gorgeous flowers of ever colour and verity displayed to perfection, water with elaborate decorations and crystal-clear water flowing though them but Heero ignored it all, moving though the garden like it was not there the one who would have loved this was back in a quiet room that didn't move, now stone.

Heero had no idea how long he had been wondering the labyrinth time seemed to not exist in this place no day or night just different places gardens rooms mini mazes that led to more, then came the forest it was dense and lush it reminded Heero of the documentaries he'd seen on the amazon which had him looking around for snakes and spiders. It was also where he came to his next shock as a large cat attacked him picking up a large stick Heero was able to fend it off, but it left him with some pretty deep scratches.

"why is this happening WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM US" angry hurt and sad Heero screamed out he did not really expect a reply so when it came it shocked him.

"I want you to beat my labyrinth two have fallen one is close one is lost," the man's voice seems to be a whisper this time dancing around Heero instead of vibrating though his skin like the first time.

"two have fallen two oh gods Quatre, who else who else did you take from me" Heero demanded "I no you can hear me, answer me damn you" the man didn't though leaving Heero feeling even worse then before knowing two of his friend were stuck in this place first Quatre and the second Heero wasn't sure if it would be Trowa or Wufei, "I'm getting us out of here even if just one of us makes it he'll have to let the others go to.. I hope"

Using part of his shirt Heero bandaged the scratches left by the large cat picking up his stick continued though the labyrinth. Shortly after he'd find out the answer to his question and wished he hadn't, as caught in a tree was the large cat struggling and snarling as it tried to get free, Heero got a little closer only to jump back as the animal swiped at him, but the cats behaviour isn't what had Heero falling to the ground in horror, it was a small chain the animal had around its neck a chain Heero new Quatre had given Trowa for his 16th birthday, and the green eyes Heero could see staring back at him from the large golden brown cat.

"Trowa oh gods no, this is a night mare if I let you down your going to attack me if I leave u there you'll die, oh gods, damn it this isn't happening, I cant loose you to" Heero's voice was full of sadness as he looked at his friend, "I'll get you down, has to be a way to loosen that and give me enough time to get away before you attack me" Heero wasn't quite sure why he was talking to the large cat just that it made him feel a little better, looking at all the tangles Heero was able to find a way at least to get the cat out of the tree, which he was sure would allow the large animal to free it's self from the vines "here we go wish I had a knife or something", hitting the vine with a sharp rock he'd found till it snapped the large cat went down and Heero ran.

"I'm sorry Trowa I don't want you to eat me".

Heero continued to run till he was out of breath leaning against a stone wall to rest for a moment, it was a bad idea as the wall gave way sending Heero plummeting down reaching out Heero only just managed to catch himself on a root before he went into what looked like a bog, pulling himself up Heero moved around the rim of the wall looking down at the bubbling muck under him, "this cant get worse it can't" he muttered to himself as he moved only to slip and fall right beside the bogs edge "I hate this place" the bog was hot Heero could feel the heat coming off it and the smell was worse making him gag covering his nose, "I get that on me I'll die of some kind of disease just no it, ok so he said two gone one lost one close so who's lost and who's close gods I hope Wufei's ok"

Heero continued moving along the bank avoiding bits of the bog the hot air would sometime shoot up and cause to splatter around, the place matched every gruesome horror game Heero ever played making him jumpy thinking ghosts were around, he did not expect to see one.

Climbing over a tree limb making it to the other side of the bog Heero spotted movement moving towards it slowly Heero almost fell over in joy when he saw Wufei, only for seconds later to collapse in the dirt, there was his friend, but it was not at the same time, Wufei was see-through and was not touching the ground, he also did not even seem to realise Heero was there even when his friend called out to him.

"this cant be happening, no oh gods Fei no not you to" Heero felt tears stinging his eyes but refused to let them fall, "I'm going to that castle and I'm going to save all of you" getting up from the dirt Heero headed for castle which he could now see just outside the tree's, unlike the story however there wasn't a goblin city there wasn't any goblins either it was a dusty falling apart ruin of a town and a the castle looked ready to crumble and fall, but Heero didn't stop he had to make it to the castle he had to save his friends so he went pushing the castle doors open to find an empty room.

"You made it, I see, well done the first time anyone made it all the way here" Heero looked up to see a man, with dark blond hair green eyes and black nails in old style clothes that reminded Heero of watching movies with knights in them standing on some stairs,

"I made it now help my friends turn them back let us go home" Heero was shaking he was cold hungry exhausted and in pain from all the falls and fight with the large cat who Heero just could not let himself call Trowa, even if he new that was the case.

"You made it, they did not, you may return, but they will remain here" the man's voice was vibrating again making Heero's shaking worse

"No, we're all going back I'm not leaving them here, this place is a nightmare no one should have to stay here" Heero voice was angry and sad as he demanded the man release his friends, he did not get the reply he thought he would.

"You truly wish for their safety they're happiness" the man demanded his own voice though sending ripples though Heero was mild in its question.

"Yes, I did it didn't I, I got here I went through your hell out there now I want my friends back" Heero was adamant he wanted them safely back.

"I can not give you what you want, but I can make a trade with you, the labyrinth has rules even I must follow, so the question now is are you willing to trade child" again the voice was almost gentle but still had Heero wishing he could stop shaking.

"I'll do it, I'll trade with you if it'll save them, what do you want from me" Heero tried to keep his own voice steady even though he felt truly scared of what the man may ask of him.

"My labyrinth is falling to ruin my time as its protector is ending, the trade Heero Yuy is you, for your friends, I will heal them send them back to where you came from, they even will not remember their time here, but you'll remain you will take up my place here and reform the labyrinth, your friends will not remember you all traces of you will be removed from the normal world, no pictures video nothing your parents wont remember you no one will, but your friends will be free from here safe, you'll be able to watch them but never be with them again. Or they remain you go back and slowly over time the memories of them will fade and you will forget they ever existed; the choice of trade is yours" the man said all of this slowly allowing Heero time to listen.

A choice to leave himself and abandon his friends or to save them and be stuck forever, it was not an easy choice to be forgotten to have people you love not even no you existed it was a nightmare in and of itself but to leave his friends here like they are, Heero could not do it so he looked at the man and nodded "I'll do it, let's trade".

The man smiles and a small crystal ball the size of a pool ball floated from his hand right into Heero's chest, Heero closed his eyes expecting it to hurt but it didn't instead he felt nothing from it, but then time stopped, it took seconds it took millennia all the knowledge of the labyrinth, how to save his friends, who the man was, filled Heero's mind till there was nothing else to learn, and when Heero opened his eyes he was standing on a branch outside a window watching his three best friends have a pillow fight and arguing if they should have popcorn.

Heero smiled as he jumped from the branch becoming a snow-white owl and flying back to what was now his labyrinth.

This is just the beginning.